Born Nathaniel Hathorne July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864
Born to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne in Salem, MA
Two sisters
A descendant of John Hathorne a judge during the Witchcraft Trials in Salem
His father died when he was four
Before he attended collge the family moved in with his uncles in Maine
Attended Bowdion College in Brunswick, Maine in 1821
After college he changed his last name from Hathorne to Hawthorne trying to dissociate himself from John Hathorne, his grandfather
He attended college with a famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future American President Franklin Pierce who he wrote a biography on
Married painter and fellow transcendentalist Sophia Peabody
They settled in the heart of Transcendentalist country Concorde, Massachusetts, living in the ‘The Old Manse’
They had 3 daughters: Una, Rose, Julian
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a fantastic writer, but he did not start off like that. His first couple of short stories were not a great success. He was not expecting much response from the public. Hawthorne's works are about romanticism, but mostly dark romantiscism. Dark romanticism talks about cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. His four most succesful novels were written between 1850 and 1860: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance(1852) and The Marble Faun (1860).
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a fantastic writer, but he did not start off like that. His first couple of short stories were not a great success. He was not expecting much response from the public. Hawthorne's works are about romanticism, but mostly dark romantiscism. Dark romanticism talks about cautionary tales that suggest that guilt, sin, and evil are the most inherent natural qualities of humanity. His four most succesful novels were written between 1850 and 1860: The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance(1852) and The Marble Faun (1860).
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